Perri
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After pressure from the Justice Department, Apple pulled apps from its App Store that encourage reporting ICE activity. Google followed suit by pulling similar apps from its Play Store.
The government shouldn't be choosing what apps we can download, and neither should tech companies.
The government shouldn't be choosing what apps we can download, and neither should tech companies.
Your Smartphone, Their Rules: How App Stores Enable Corporate-Government Censorship | ACLU
Big Tech Oligopoly helps the Trump Administration crack down on free speech
www.aclu.org
November 29, 2025 at 6:38 PM
After pressure from the Justice Department, Apple pulled apps from its App Store that encourage reporting ICE activity. Google followed suit by pulling similar apps from its Play Store.
The government shouldn't be choosing what apps we can download, and neither should tech companies.
The government shouldn't be choosing what apps we can download, and neither should tech companies.
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1984 is over-cited, but the best word for this is doublethink. MAGA has tons of it.
Trump is a strong leader no one would cross and a poor victim who deserves sympathy.
He brought crime down and crime is out of control.
The Epstein Files are fake to hurt Trump and have nothing negative about him.
Trump is a strong leader no one would cross and a poor victim who deserves sympathy.
He brought crime down and crime is out of control.
The Epstein Files are fake to hurt Trump and have nothing negative about him.
This is the crux of the MAGA strategy: make contradictory claims and hope no one notices. Either the files are fake, or they’re harmless — they can’t logically be both.
New in PN: MAGA's Epstein gaslighting is unsustainable
"The Epstein files are a 'hoax,' Trump says — a lie made up by Dems to make him look bad. Yet somehow, at the same time, there’s nothing in them that could make him look bad — b/c if there was, Biden would have released them. So which is it?"
"The Epstein files are a 'hoax,' Trump says — a lie made up by Dems to make him look bad. Yet somehow, at the same time, there’s nothing in them that could make him look bad — b/c if there was, Biden would have released them. So which is it?"
November 29, 2025 at 6:12 PM
1984 is over-cited, but the best word for this is doublethink. MAGA has tons of it.
Trump is a strong leader no one would cross and a poor victim who deserves sympathy.
He brought crime down and crime is out of control.
The Epstein Files are fake to hurt Trump and have nothing negative about him.
Trump is a strong leader no one would cross and a poor victim who deserves sympathy.
He brought crime down and crime is out of control.
The Epstein Files are fake to hurt Trump and have nothing negative about him.
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They place their wink and nods to white supremacy and fascism everywhere. We ignore it at our peril.
November 29, 2025 at 6:42 PM
They place their wink and nods to white supremacy and fascism everywhere. We ignore it at our peril.
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Personally, if I were writing this up, I wouldn’t wait until the 4th graf.
November 29, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Personally, if I were writing this up, I wouldn’t wait until the 4th graf.
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OMG. This is the "good-faith, very passionate" debate Bari Weiss pointed when talking about the people and discussions she wants "in the room" at CBS News.
Dana Loesch, unchallenged, absurdly claimed that 52% of all murders in the U.S. are in Cook County and L.A. County. VID: x.com/WallStreetAp...
Dana Loesch, unchallenged, absurdly claimed that 52% of all murders in the U.S. are in Cook County and L.A. County. VID: x.com/WallStreetAp...
Wall Street Apes on X: "This is actually insane 52% of all murders in the United States come from only 2 counties 1) Cook County, Illinois (Chicago and surrounding area) 2) Los Angeles County, California Repeat offenders in Chicago, the same 1400 people commit over 86% of the crimes. The same repeat https://t.co/QJe3KdBllC" / X
This is actually insane 52% of all murders in the United States come from only 2 counties 1) Cook County, Illinois (Chicago and surrounding area) 2) Los Angeles County, California Repeat offenders in Chicago, the same 1400 people commit over 86% of the crimes. The same repeat https://t.co/QJe3KdBllC
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November 29, 2025 at 6:43 PM
OMG. This is the "good-faith, very passionate" debate Bari Weiss pointed when talking about the people and discussions she wants "in the room" at CBS News.
Dana Loesch, unchallenged, absurdly claimed that 52% of all murders in the U.S. are in Cook County and L.A. County. VID: x.com/WallStreetAp...
Dana Loesch, unchallenged, absurdly claimed that 52% of all murders in the U.S. are in Cook County and L.A. County. VID: x.com/WallStreetAp...
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Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
November 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
He looks so much like Judge Doom, I expect his eyeballs to pop out and start spiraling at any moment...
November 29, 2025 at 7:38 PM
He looks so much like Judge Doom, I expect his eyeballs to pop out and start spiraling at any moment...
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The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
November 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
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In 2024 Texas Governor Greg Abbott shipped 5 bus loads of immigrants to a Home Depot parking lot in Orlando. Those folks lived there for months as Gov DeSantis criminalized homelessness at the same time.
November 29, 2025 at 6:46 PM
In 2024 Texas Governor Greg Abbott shipped 5 bus loads of immigrants to a Home Depot parking lot in Orlando. Those folks lived there for months as Gov DeSantis criminalized homelessness at the same time.
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NYC’s density really working against ICE today, much easier for a ton of people to swarm and shut them down once they realized what was going on
great fucking work everyone
great fucking work everyone
Confirmed: Earlier this morning a photog overheard agents inside the parking garage say “dismissed,” believed to be calling off their planned mass raid.
A source tells me they had planned for *hundreds* of agents to flood Canal St. They got flooded instead.
A source tells me they had planned for *hundreds* of agents to flood Canal St. They got flooded instead.
November 29, 2025 at 6:38 PM
NYC’s density really working against ICE today, much easier for a ton of people to swarm and shut them down once they realized what was going on
great fucking work everyone
great fucking work everyone
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Remember, too, that Hegseth would have been rejected if a single additional Republican senator — or, JD Vance — had joined Sen. Collins, McConnell, and Murkowski in voting no with the Democrats. See: www.senate.gov/legislative/...
November 29, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Remember, too, that Hegseth would have been rejected if a single additional Republican senator — or, JD Vance — had joined Sen. Collins, McConnell, and Murkowski in voting no with the Democrats. See: www.senate.gov/legislative/...
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Yes. It's a very common misconception about the past that horses were just a one-to-one replacement for cars - only the rich had carriages, few people rode on horseback for transportation, most horses were used for hauling, not transporting people. Most people (like most of human history) walked
There was never really a point where horse usage reached anywhere near the saturation of car usage, so it's hard to compare. At the highest point there was about one horse for every five Americans. People just walked a lot!
Considering that horses are dangerous and riders are very regularly seriously injured, I wonder what the direct overall injury/death rate looked like when everyone in our society had to constantly ride/drive horses, versus the injury/death rate from cars today?
November 29, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Yes. It's a very common misconception about the past that horses were just a one-to-one replacement for cars - only the rich had carriages, few people rode on horseback for transportation, most horses were used for hauling, not transporting people. Most people (like most of human history) walked
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600 ICE agents were supposed to be deployed to Canal Street. Hundreds of New Yorkers gathered instead.
Quick summary by me:
Quick summary by me:
November 29, 2025 at 6:55 PM
600 ICE agents were supposed to be deployed to Canal Street. Hundreds of New Yorkers gathered instead.
Quick summary by me:
Quick summary by me:
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I cannot even begin to express my rage at this lie
reading this through me back into my pandemic EMT life, attempting to resuscitate a child experiencing a cardiac arrest secondary to COVID while a father says “we heard that the vaccine was riskier than COVID for kids” and a mother wails in agony
reading this through me back into my pandemic EMT life, attempting to resuscitate a child experiencing a cardiac arrest secondary to COVID while a father says “we heard that the vaccine was riskier than COVID for kids” and a mother wails in agony
NEW: The F.D.A. announced in an internal memo that 10 children died "because of" the Covid shot. Other experts want to see proof.
“This is a profound revelation,” Dr. Prasad's memo said. “For the first time, the U.S. F.D.A. will acknowledge that Covid-19 vaccines have killed American children.”
“This is a profound revelation,” Dr. Prasad's memo said. “For the first time, the U.S. F.D.A. will acknowledge that Covid-19 vaccines have killed American children.”
F.D.A. Attributes 10 Children’s Deaths to Covid Vaccines
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:27 PM
I cannot even begin to express my rage at this lie
reading this through me back into my pandemic EMT life, attempting to resuscitate a child experiencing a cardiac arrest secondary to COVID while a father says “we heard that the vaccine was riskier than COVID for kids” and a mother wails in agony
reading this through me back into my pandemic EMT life, attempting to resuscitate a child experiencing a cardiac arrest secondary to COVID while a father says “we heard that the vaccine was riskier than COVID for kids” and a mother wails in agony
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It's the umlaut. The nonsense is gobsmacking, the servility pathetic, but the shit cherry on top of this shit cake is, undoubtedly that twee little grab for space on the faux intellectual high ground.
What absolute--and I can't stress this strongly enough--wankers.
What absolute--and I can't stress this strongly enough--wankers.
When a cancelled performer reënters the culture, we expect them to offer us a great work, channelling their newfound clarity into the finest art they’ve ever made. With his new comedy show and début novel, has Louis C.K. met the bar?
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
Louis C.K.’s Next Chapter
In a new standup special, and a début novel, the comedian navigates murky, post-#MeToo terrain: not quite exiled, not quite welcomed back.
www.newyorker.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:20 PM
It's the umlaut. The nonsense is gobsmacking, the servility pathetic, but the shit cherry on top of this shit cake is, undoubtedly that twee little grab for space on the faux intellectual high ground.
What absolute--and I can't stress this strongly enough--wankers.
What absolute--and I can't stress this strongly enough--wankers.
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A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:
November 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:
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Thing is, we DID hear about it at his confirmation hearing.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.
Everyone should read this terrifying thread about Hegseth’s published views wrt war crimes. It’s pretty fucking radical …. We needed to hear about this in his confirmation hearing.
A chapter in Hegseth’s book is literally titled “More Lethality, Less Lawyers.”
It’s almost as if there were signs!
It’s almost as if there were signs!
November 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Thing is, we DID hear about it at his confirmation hearing.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.
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Many young Afghans who held elite positions working with the U.S. military are now adrift in America. They’ve been left to build a life on the margins of an uncaring society.
Read more from @macwbishop.bsky.social: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Read more from @macwbishop.bsky.social: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
November 29, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Many young Afghans who held elite positions working with the U.S. military are now adrift in America. They’ve been left to build a life on the margins of an uncaring society.
Read more from @macwbishop.bsky.social: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Read more from @macwbishop.bsky.social: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Headlines like this are extremely dangerous. Because moms of young kids are the people who make the bulk of the vaccine decisions for famillies. And for a lot of them, "reading the news" looks like scrolling past headlines on social media in the spare moments of the chaos of caring for kids.
November 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Headlines like this are extremely dangerous. Because moms of young kids are the people who make the bulk of the vaccine decisions for famillies. And for a lot of them, "reading the news" looks like scrolling past headlines on social media in the spare moments of the chaos of caring for kids.
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Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
November 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
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Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter
The playwright Tom Stoppard, whose playful erudition dazzled the theatregoing world for decades, has died aged 88.
One of a select band of writers from any discipline to earn his own adjective – “Stoppardian” – in the Oxford English Dictionary, he delighted in the most improbable juxtapositions: philosophy and gymnastics in Jumpers (1972); early 19th-century landscape gardening and chaos theory in Arcadia (1993); rock music, dissident Czech academics and the love poetry of Sappho in Rock ’n’ Roll (2006). Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
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One of the names often left out when we're discussing major figures like MLK Jr, Malcolm X, Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, Thurgood Marshall, and Fannie Lou Hamer is the great Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
Pastor and the first Black elected congressman in New York and the North East
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Pastor and the first Black elected congressman in New York and the North East
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November 29, 2025 at 4:53 PM
One of the names often left out when we're discussing major figures like MLK Jr, Malcolm X, Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, Thurgood Marshall, and Fannie Lou Hamer is the great Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
Pastor and the first Black elected congressman in New York and the North East
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Pastor and the first Black elected congressman in New York and the North East
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Indiana Senate Republican Greg Walker “said he would have reported the alleged violation to federal authorities “if I thought that there was anyone of integrity in Washington that would follow through on my accusation ..”
@adamwren.bsky.social #redistrict
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@adamwren.bsky.social #redistrict
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November 29, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Indiana Senate Republican Greg Walker “said he would have reported the alleged violation to federal authorities “if I thought that there was anyone of integrity in Washington that would follow through on my accusation ..”
@adamwren.bsky.social #redistrict
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@adamwren.bsky.social #redistrict
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I note this is a very large crowd. Remember the Oct. 21 ICE raid on Canal Street? Hundreds of people confronted the agents, forcing them to retreat to their HQ. All of that was spontaneous.
Similarly, I expect many of the folks pictured below are outraged passersby, not per se activists.
Similarly, I expect many of the folks pictured below are outraged passersby, not per se activists.
ICE still FROZEN at Centre St & Howard in lower Manhattan right now as calls continue circulating for people to join.
NYPD arriving with barricades.
NYPD arriving with barricades.
November 29, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I note this is a very large crowd. Remember the Oct. 21 ICE raid on Canal Street? Hundreds of people confronted the agents, forcing them to retreat to their HQ. All of that was spontaneous.
Similarly, I expect many of the folks pictured below are outraged passersby, not per se activists.
Similarly, I expect many of the folks pictured below are outraged passersby, not per se activists.